Neighborhood Civic Leadership

Program Overview

CHW has a variety of training tools for our resident community leaders – from an 8 session institute that helps resident and neighborhood group leaders set visions/mission/goals and action plan, deal with disagreements, and address communication across diversity — to a variety of modules that get rolled out on more specific issues that come up. Most are in Spanish and English. Most of CHW’s leadership focus is directed to strengthen a leader’s ability to mobilize their low income communities, often our affordable housing residents, around grassroots community development problems they have identified and want to solve (crime; kids’ school performance; local infrastructure), or to support affordable housing campaigns.

About

The goal of the project is to empower leaders in underrepresented communities to advance social justice policy agendas and achieve positions of influence with interconnected countywide leadership development resources that focus upon increasing the power of historically underrepresented communities, with a priority focus on racial/ethnic groups that too often have been without representation.